Publication at Catholic Theological Faculty |
2009
Abstract
In this short study, the Author presents the historical consequences of the beginnings of the Jesuit Order and relates the Order?s immense expansion to the new challenges of the Early modern period. The first challenge is the geographic one: the Jesuits responded to it with their massive missionary effort.
Among others, there was the print that marks an intellectual revolution, the development of the education and the concentrated pastoral care of the elites. The Jesuits? creativity and their diligent work?s ethos made the Jesuits in the Catholic environment one of the determinant elements of the modern period until their suspension in 1773